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In 2018, the shootout in the Urus-Martan District, during which law enforcers killed two people, was preceded by nine armed incidents in other district sof Chechnya.

The human rights defenders, who worked in Chechnya, received threats from high-ranking law enforcers and personally by Ramzan Kadyrov, but Oyub Titiev continued working in the republic, realizing the danger. This was stated at the trial by Dmitry Utukin and Sergey Babinets, members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMS).

Today, journalist Sulieta Kusova has died. She was 67 years old. Sulieta Kusova was preparing to undergo a surgery, but she rescheduled it to take part in the "Kunaki" Film Festival last week, reported Ali Kamalov, the chairman of the Dagestani Union of Journalists.

Journalist Ilkin Mamedli, detained in Baku after his address for a foreign passport, was released two days later without any charge, reported rights defender Samira Agaeva. According to her, the issue of lifting the ban on leaving Azerbaijan from Ilkin Mamedli remains open.

The government of Ingushetia has announced launching the improvement works at the border village of Dattykh. The authorities made a decision to revive the Dattykh village, noted the Ingush Prime Minister during his visit to the village amid public confrontation provoked by the change in the border with Chechnya.

During the week of November 5-11, 2018, at least two persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In Ingushetia, unidentified people in masks kidnapped Rustam Lyanov, a nephew of Ibragim Lyanov, the head of the European Ingush Association in Brussels, reported activists. Ibragim Lyanov associated the incident with his activities.

The new map of the region posted on the website of the Chechen Parliament has been updated after the critical article of the edition named "Novoe Delo" (New Case), which pointed out a mismatch with the cadastral data on the border with Dagestan, a part of which was ascribed to Chechnya.

The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has announced its plans to close its Embassy in Baku and open it in Tbilisi. The Embassy in Turkey will be in charge of relationships with Azerbaijan, the MFA has stated. According to the opposition, the closure of the Embassy has to do with a regress of democracy in Azerbaijan.

The signatories to the petition have called on Georgian authorities to allow Zaza Saralidze, the father of the murdered schoolboy, to hold his protest action at the parliament building, where Tbilisi Mayoralty plans to set up a New Year Tree.

The ruling "Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement" Party has launched an active campaign on the eve of the second round of presidential election; while the opposition has reported violations. Political analysts do not expect any significant increase in voter turnout.

Within the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 28 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The new map of Chechnya, posted with account of the agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border, show Lake Kezenoy-Am, located on the Chechen-Dagestani border, as well as a part of the territory near the Dagestani village of Ansalta, within the territory of Chechnya, the "Novoe Delo" wrote on November 10.

In the course of a clash with policemen, who prevented protesters in Tbilisi from setting up tents, Zaza Saralidze felt bad and was taken to a hospital. His supporters started a rally.

For a week already, the journalist Seymour Khazi, convicted in Azerbaijan, cannot receive letters collected by activists in his support, his wife has stated.

The exhibition "Realism" of video works by Polish film director Artur Żmijewski has been opened in Krasnodar. Heroes of the videos are soldiers who became disabled during the wars in Chechnya.

Over the past day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan has registered 30 cases of violation of the ceasefire regime on the contact line of troops in the Karabakh conflict zone.

The state leaders have not agreed on a new candidate for the post of the CSTO Secretary General at the CSTO summit in Astana. On December 6, discussion of the issue will be continued. Kazakhstan and Belarus are struggling behind the scenes in attempts to use the situation with the appointment of the CSTO Secretary General and to get benefits for themselves, analysts say.

A video from the period of the ruling of Mikhail Saakashvili, the third President of Georgia, with his confession to unleashing the Five-Day War, has been made public on the eve of the second round of the presidential election in the country. The video will not have a serious impact on the will of voters with their attraction to the side of Salome Zuraishvili, believe Georgian political analysts.

A new map of Chechnya, indicating the territories that the republic should take over from Ingushetia under the border agreement, has been posted by the Chechen Parliament on its website, on the page "Map of the Chechen Republic" of the section "Chechen Republic", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.